ISCHE 47 – Pre-Conference Seminar – Call for Abstracts

History of Education Perspectives on Knowledge, Ignorance, and Truth

Date and Venue: 14 July 2026 at the School of Philosophy, Athens, Greece

For the upcoming ISCHE 47 Conference in Athens, Greece (15–18 July 2026), the organisers of the pre-conference seminar invite papers engaging with questions of knowledge, truth, and their contestation in the history of education. The seminar seeks to examine how knowledge became accepted, problematized, politicized, or emotionalized in educational contexts. We invite contributions that historicize contemporary anxieties about truth from history of education perspectives by examining how schools, universities, and informal educational spaces have shaped and have been shaped by evolving understandings of different knowledges such as scientific and popular, professional and implicit everday-knowledge or expertise, and public knowledge.

Presentation Formats

Individual Research Papers: 20-minute presentations of completed research or work-in-progress (followed by a 10-minute discussion)

Roundtables: 60-minute collaborative discussions featuring short statements from multiple scholars on a history of the present regarding knowledge, ignorance, and truth, focusing on what a history of education perspective can offer

Interactive Sessions: 90-minute sessions exploring methodological approaches to research about knowledge, ignorance and truth, including questions of expertise, scientific authority, and (democratic) education

Requirements: participation in the seminar is only possible for registered ISCHE 47 participants.

Submission deadline: 15 May 2026

Please submit your abstract (250-300 words) to Fanny Isensee: fanny-lynne.isensee(at)hu-berlin.de